Second body found after Madrid bomb

Rescue workers pulled a second victim's body out of the rubble left after Basque separatists Eta set off a car bomb at Madrid…

Rescue workers pulled a second victim's body out of the rubble left after Basque separatists Eta set off a car bomb at Madrid airport a week ago, emergency services said today.

Rescuers found Diego Armando Estacio's car late on Thursday but it took more than 40 hours to get to the wreck as firemen tried to stop the rest of the ruined carpark from collapsing.

The car bomb shattered a nine-month peace process in the Basque Country and was the first time Eta had killed anybody since May 2003.

Since the attack, police have found stashes of explosives in the Basque Country, raising fears that Eta could strike again.

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In an annual address to the armed forces, Spain's King Juan Carlos called the airport attack "cowardly and criminal".

"With full confidence in ... the firm action of our judiciary, the efficiency of our security forces and strengthening international cooperation, we will put an end to terrorist violence once for all," he said.

Eta had killed more than 800 people in its four decade campaign for a Basque homeland, carved out of northern Spain and southwest France, before declaring a "permanent truce" in March. Since the truce, France has arrested several Eta members but Paris has always refered to the Basque issue as a Spanish problem and was not openly involved in the peace process.

Eta has not officially claimed responsibility for the Madrid bomb but one of the warning calls was made in its name and the government has pinned the blame firmly on the separatists.

Both Estacio and Carlos Alonso Palate, whose body was found on Wednesday, were Ecuadorean immigrants.

They were sleeping in their cars, waiting for family members to arrive at the airport, when the bomb went off. Palate's corpse was flown to Ecuador in a Spanish military plane on Thursday.

Estacio's body is expected to follow.